Crosscut-saw.



E. J. BARNES.

GBOSSUUT SAW.

APPLICATION FILED JULY23.`1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GROSSCUT-SAW.

Specification of Letters Ratent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Application filed July23, 1906. Serial No. 327,373.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, EDWIN J. BARNES, a citizen -of the United States, residing at Snowden, in the county of Klickitat and State of Washington, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Crosscut-Saws, of which the following is a specification,

'reference being had to the accompariying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in cross-cut saws.

The object of my invention is to provide a saw having teeth with shoulders. so beveled that the shavings in the saw kerf shall be Quickly and surely ejected by the saw. I

attain these objects, and other practical advantages, lby the construction, combination and arranoement of parts illustrated in the aforesaid drawings.

It is well known `that cross-cut saws heretofore in use will easily clog up with sawdust, and particularly shavings made by the raker bits, said shavings being from four to eighteen inches in length. These shavings, because` of the plane vertical edges of the teeth and rakers in the old form of. saw are retained within the space between the rakers and teeth as the saw renters a log, thus interfering withdts effective cutting powers,

or preventing it entirely from cutting. No

devlce has heretofore been invented to satisfactoril overcome this as myinvention does. It will e clearly seen that I have provided a saw which will cause the shavings and saw-dust to promptly fall away from the` 'vertical edges opposite the rakers. Fig. -2

is a side view of a portion of a cross-cut saw with part of the top cut away and wherein the saw teeth are beveled alternately on edges opposite the rakers, the beveled edges facing the center from each end. Fig. 3 is a View of the edge of the saw in the form shown in Fig.' 2, lookin at the teeth points.

Like numerals and Ietters4 refer tolike parts throughout the views. I

All the views show a cross-cut4 saw of the kind in commonuse, but otherwise provided with my beveled tooth edge device. The form of saw shown has double teeth :zz-Jy', e-, w-e, g/-w and a1, integral with'the saw blades. Between the rakers l2,v these double teeth may be arranged, singly or alternately, in pairs and singly, or in pairs as herein shown.

In Fig. 2, from the points 1li-14 0n the same side of the edge of the teethyg'j, whereon their points' are 4 beveled; bevels l3-13, of suitable form and dimensions, extend upwardly from the points 1li-14', and a suitable distance along the arches 15-15 of the tooth spaces. These teeth bevels may be provided upon the teeth throughout the saw, so that, an arrangement results whereby all bevels on either side of the center of the saw indicated by the line (1 -C, Fig. 2, shall face toward that/center. This arrangement is also shown-inFig. 3.

In Fig. l the same form of bevels upon similar teeth is shown as in Fig. 2, land as already described. In addition to this the teeth z-e of the saw blade A, Fig. 1, may be formed with bevels 16-16 on the same side of the edge of the teeth whereon their points are beveled, and these bevels, of suit- .able form and dimension, extend upwardly from the points 18-18 and asuitable distance along the arches 17-17 of the tooth spaces. This form and arrangement of the beveled teeth may be continued throughout the saw.

It will now be seen that my device, being a cross-cut saw having integralfteeth on the saw blade, may in the first instance be provided with these novel and useful bevels for the saw teeth as above described, facing the center of the saw from each end, and when so arranged the shaving raised by the planing bits of the rakers 12 will not be retained within the spaces between the rakers and the teeth. That when one-half of the saw is pulled or pushed out of the log or timber these shavings must fall away vfrom the saw because of the beveled edges. ,It is well known that as at present made the rakers and the teeth opposite to each edge of same all present toward each other, oppositely disposed plane vertical surfaces the sanne full thickness as that of the rakers. Also that this causes stid, strong shavings of varying len hs from 4 to 18 inches to be formed wit in the saw kerf, and to be rolled up and held together with saw-dust wholly within the space between the teeth and-the rakers, and in this position to be carried back 'when so held by the saw into the log or timber again, thus materially decreasing the capacit of the saw and increasing the friction, esides thus causing much loss of ower in operating the saw, as those experienced in the use t ereof well know. It is only by the use of saws made according to my Adevice that these material diiiiculties can be overcome.

rlihe bevels upon the teeth may be arranged as shown in either of the res and as already described, to accomplish the same result, according to the judgment of the user and the kind of material which it isintended t0 saw.v

New having described my invention, l do not t myself to the precise form and size .raker-teeth having plane edges and said cutter-teeth having` non-cutting bevels on the same side as and extending from their points to and across said arches.

2. A cross eut saw having cuttingteeth and interposed raker -teeth with curved arches between teeth of different kinds, said raker-teeth having plane edges and said cut*- ter-teeth having 0n those edges which face the center'of the saw non-cutting bevels eX- tending from their points to and across said arches.

EDWN J.' BARNES.v 1Witnesses M. C. WRIGHT, l?. C. SELLwooD. 

